Foreign Policy is a bimonthly
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founded in 1970 by
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and
Warren Demian ManshelWarren Demian Manshel was born in Germany and went to school with Henry Kissinger. Manshel became a naturalized US citizen and graduated from Harvard University.He was U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1978–1981....
. Under the stewardship of editor-in-chief Moises Naim, Foreign Policy evolved from an academic quarterly in the 1990s to a bimonthly glossy, winning the 2009, 2007, and 2003
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for General Excellence. It is published by The Washington Post Company in
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, USA. Its topics include global politics, economics, integration and ideas.
Foreign Policy is a bimonthly
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
magazineMagazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
founded in 1970 by
Samuel P. HuntingtonSamuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist who gained prominence through his Clash of Civilizations thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.-Biographical details:...
and
Warren Demian ManshelWarren Demian Manshel was born in Germany and went to school with Henry Kissinger. Manshel became a naturalized US citizen and graduated from Harvard University.He was U.S. Ambassador to Denmark from 1978–1981....
. Under the stewardship of editor-in-chief Moises Naim, Foreign Policy evolved from an academic quarterly in the 1990s to a bimonthly glossy, winning the 2009, 2007, and 2003
National Magazine AwardThe National Magazine Awards are a prestigious series of American awards that honor excellence in the magazine industry. They are administered by the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City...
for General Excellence. It is published by The Washington Post Company in
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, USA. Its topics include global politics, economics, integration and ideas. On September 29, 2008, The Washington Post Company announced that they had
purchased Foreign Policy for an undisclosed sum from the
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.
In early 2006, the magazine expanded its web presence by launching a blog, Foreign Policy Passport. On January 5, 2009, Foreign Policy re-launched its website with an ambitious goal: Become “a daily web magazine that is a must-read for anyone who cares about international affairs, […] indispensable, insightful and as diverse as the subjects it covers, […] serious but never stuffy.”
The magazine's website recently has had a makeover. Roughly 20 new writers joined the ForeignPolicy.com in a variety of individual and group blogs, as the website went for a more contemporary design and broader mission, borrowing at times from the playbooks of
Slate magazine,
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and
The Atlantic in creating a more dynamic site.
Among the new blogs featured in the magazine are several well-known authors and thinkers, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning military reporter Tom Ricks, international bestseller Stephen Walt and veteran blogger Daniel W. Drezner. Among the new blogs, The Shadow Government serves as a conservative critique to the Obama administration, led by senior editor Christian Brose, Condoleezza Rice's longtime chief speechwriter, and featuring columns by 9/11 commission director Philip Zelikow, ex-senior White House aide Peter Feaver, top Pentagon official Dov Zakheim, John McCain's foreign policy adviser Steve Biegun. The Cable, a daily column written by Laura Rozen, a Washington journalist specializing in investigative reports on national security and foreign affairs, includes original coverage and behind-the-scenes news about the making of Washington’s foreign policy in the Obama era.
The magazine's top editors include
Moisés NaímMoisés Naím is a Venezuelan writer and columnist and, since 1996, the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine.He has written extensively on international politics and economics, economic development, multilateral organizations, U.S. foreign policy, and globalization's unintended consequences...
and Susan Glasser.
Foreign Policy publishes the annual
Globalization IndexThis article includes a list of countries of the world sorted by their globalization, the global connectivity, integration and interdependence in the economic, social, technological, cultural, political, and ecological spheres....
, and
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listing. Its report "Inside the Ivory Tower" provides an annual comprehensive ranking of professional schools in international relations.
The World's Most Dangerous Ideas
The World's Most Dangerous Ideas is a September/October 2004 special report published in Foreign Policy magazine. Eight notable intellectuals were asked to issue an early warning on the ideas or ideologies that will be most destructive in the coming years.
Nominees
- War on evil
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror is a 2004 book about the "War on Terror", analyzing Islamic terrorist networks and proposing policies the United States government should adopt to defeat them...
(Robert Wright, Jr.Robert G. Wright, Jr. is a Chicago FBI agent who has criticised the FBI's counterterrorist activities. He claims to have written a detailed book which the FBI will not allow him to publish....
)
- Business as usual at the U.N. (Samantha Power
Samantha Power is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Power has been a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and was a senior adviser to U.S...
)
- Transhumanism
Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities. The movement regards aspects of the human condition, such as disability, suffering, disease, aging, and involuntary...
(Francis FukuyamaYoshihiro Francis Fukuyama is an American philosopher, political economist, and author.-Early life:Francis Fukuyama was born in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. His father, Yoshio Fukuyama, a second-generation Japanese-American, was trained as a minister in the Congregational Church and...
)
- Free money
The United States government debt, commonly called the "public debt" or the "national debt", is the amount of money owed by the Federal government of the United States to holders of U.S. debt instruments. Gross Debt is the national debt plus intragovernmental debt obligations or debt held by trust...
(Alice RivlinAlice Mitchell Rivlin is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. She is currently on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange....
)
- Undermining free will (Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies AM is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science...
)
- Spreading democracy
The Case for Democracy is a foreign policy manifesto written by one-time Soviet political prisoner and former Israeli Member of the Knesset, Natan Sharansky. Sharansky's friend Ron Dermer is the book's co-author...
(Eric HobsbawmEric John Ernest Hobsbawm, CH, FBA, is a British Marxist historian and author, one of the most influential British historians of the late twentieth century.-Life:...
)
- Religious intolerance
Religious intolerance is intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices.The mere statement on the part of a religion that its own beliefs and practices are correct and any contrary beliefs incorrect does not in itself constitute intolerance . There are many cases throughout history of...
(Martha NussbaumMartha Nussbaum is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics....
)
- Hating America
Anti-Americanism, often anti-American sentiment, is opposition or hostility to the people or the government policies of the United States. In practice, a broad range of attitudes and actions critical of or opposed to the United States have been labeled anti-Americanism...
(Fareed ZakariaFareed Rafiq Zakaria born January 20, 1964) is an Indian-American journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS.Zakaria is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, trade and U.S. foreign policy.-Early life:Zakaria was born in Mumbai,...
)
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